On 12/5/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
People also falsely confess to crimes; there have been many famous cases of this which have actually been later overturned (and one must assume even more cases which have not been overturned). If we start trying to second guess legal systems, then all we'll be left with is original research to determine if someone is a criminal.
Jay.
The problems is that you're trying to apply a fundamentally 20th-century view of legal systems across the board. Only recently have the majority of criminals begun to appear before courts; in earlier periods, it was quite common for them to simply be killed, or to kill themselves.
What about cases like [[Marcus Junius Brutus]]? There is little, if any, doubt about his role in Ceasar's death; should we then refrain from adding him to the Assassins category merely because he was never convicted in a court?
Kirill Lokshin